Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/15/2019 05:45 PM, Glen I Langston wrote: Hi Marcus, That’s great. What could you hear/detect with the 90 kHz bandwidth? Glen I used it strictly for SIDs in the VLF band up to 40kHz or so... I had a loop antenna, about 1.2m diameter, and about 10 windings of #20ga wire. No tuning capa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-15 Thread Glen I Langston
Hi Marcus, That’s great. What could you hear/detect with the 90 kHz bandwidth? Glen > On May 15, 2019, at 5:28 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > > On 05/15/2019 03:23 PM, Brad Hein wrote: >> Great suggestion thank you! This also gives me new topics to read up on as I >> am still a VLF amateur. >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-15 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/15/2019 03:23 PM, Brad Hein wrote: Great suggestion thank you! This also gives me new topics to read up on as I am still a VLF amateur. [Sent from mobile device] I used a Berhringer "mini-MIC" microphone amplifier, which has a balanced, XLR, input, and has bandwidth out to about 90kHz.

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-15 Thread Brad Hein
Great suggestion thank you! This also gives me new topics to read up on as I am still a VLF amateur. [Sent from mobile device] On Wed, May 15, 2019, 1:20 PM John Coppens On Thu, 2 May 2019 16:22:24 -0400 > Brad Hein wrote: > > > I took a Raspberry Pi and attached a 48KHz USB sound card, with a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-15 Thread John Coppens
On Thu, 2 May 2019 16:22:24 -0400 Brad Hein wrote: > I took a Raspberry Pi and attached a 48KHz USB sound card, with a big > magnetic loop antenna fed into the mic. Just a suggestion: If you have a loop antenna, which is a symmetrical antenna, and couple it to an asymmetrical input (MIC), you wi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-08 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/08/2019 08:33 AM, Brad Hein wrote: As an avid fan of Raspberry Pi, often putting them to use for DSP applications, I just want to say thank you for your hard work keeping gnuradio working and optimized on the platform! I've seen some great FET preamp circuits available on the internet, a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-08 Thread Albin Stigö
Thanks for the support! Regarding your VLF experiments there's an historically interesting VLF transmitter Grimeton SAQ sometimes active on 17.2kHz. https://alexander.n.se/the-radio-station-saq-grimeton/saq-transmissions/?lang=en --Albin On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 2:34 PM Brad Hein wrote: > > As a

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-08 Thread Brad Hein
As an avid fan of Raspberry Pi, often putting them to use for DSP applications, I just want to say thank you for your hard work keeping gnuradio working and optimized on the platform! I've seen some great FET preamp circuits available on the internet, a few of which I've tried out. I'll dust one o

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-08 Thread Albin Stigö
Hi Brad, Just some random ideas... What you are trying to do is very doable. Ive seen a lot of people do it for VLF reception... Usually along with some kind of FET amplifier before the mic... The frequency xlating FIR filter doesn't have great performance on the rbpi at the moment. The frequency

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-07 Thread Brad Hein
On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 4:19 PM Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 05/07/2019 04:05 PM, Ben Hilburn wrote: > > Hey Brad - just checking in! This is an interesting experiment, and I > would love to hear how it went! > > Big thanks to Kevin and JMF for providing very helpful guidance, here, too > =) > > Ch

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-07 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 05/07/2019 04:05 PM, Ben Hilburn wrote: Hey Brad - just checking in! This is an interesting experiment, and I would love to hear how it went! Big thanks to Kevin and JMF for providing very helpful guidance, here, too =) Cheers, Ben I should perhaps have entered this discussion earlier, an

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-07 Thread Brad Hein
Yes I am very eager and hankful for the suggestions. Trying to make time to build out the flow graph and give it a go. Hopefully tonight! [Sent from mobile device] On Tue, May 7, 2019, 4:06 PM Ben Hilburn Hey Brad - just checking in! This is an interesting experiment, and I > would love to hear

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-07 Thread Ben Hilburn
Hey Brad - just checking in! This is an interesting experiment, and I would love to hear how it went! Big thanks to Kevin and JMF for providing very helpful guidance, here, too =) Cheers, Ben On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 7:12 PM Kevin Reid wrote: > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:22 PM Brad Hein wrote: >

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-02 Thread Kevin Reid
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 1:22 PM Brad Hein wrote: > I took a Raspberry Pi and attached a 48KHz USB sound card, with a big > magnetic loop antenna fed into the mic. A little cheesy? yes! But I'd like > to try and see if I can receive VLF. It's in a remote location with little > to no interference so

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-02 Thread jean-michel.fri...@femto-st.fr
reading your email more closely: * the sound card generates real data with an even spectrum with components at w and -w * you transfer from VLF band to baseband by multiplying by a complex NCO exp(-jwt) with t=[0:length(samples)]/fs when sampling at fs * the -w component is shifted to -2w that yo

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-02 Thread jean-michel.fri...@femto-st.fr
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/2017RS006420 or http://jmfriedt.free.fr/agu_dcf77.pdf We are currently working on simultaneously decoding (e)LORAN/MSF, TDF & DCF77 v.s GPS with a sound card. JM -- JM Friedt, FEMTO-ST Time & Frequency/SENSeOR, 26 rue de l'Epitaphe, 25000 B

[Discuss-gnuradio] Tuning in VLF with a sound card

2019-05-02 Thread Brad Hein
I took a Raspberry Pi and attached a 48KHz USB sound card, with a big magnetic loop antenna fed into the mic. A little cheesy? yes! But I'd like to try and see if I can receive VLF. It's in a remote location with little to no interference so I'm thinking my chances should be good. The challenge I'm